[3] Red Production Company was formed in 1998 by Nicola Shindler, a television producer who had worked on Our Friends in the North and Cracker.
Red's first production was the controversial drama Queer as Folk, written by Russell T Davies and based on the lives of three gay men in the city.
[4] RED is now based in offices at Ancoats since 2022, with CEO Patrick Schweitzer (previously from Tall Story Pictures) at the healm.
In December 2013, it was announced that Shindler had sold a majority stake in Red to the French media company StudioCanal.
[5][6] In 2015, it was announced that Shindler would provide creative guidance and management oversight to a new production company called Guilty Party, founded by the actor Simon Bird, Jonny Sweet, and Spencer Millman.